Laura Tach

Best Publications

• The Causal Effects of Father Absence

  Sara McLanahan;Laura Tach;Daniel Schneider

  797
  Citations

• Parenting as a "Package Deal": Relationships, Fertility, and Nonresident Father Involvement Among Unmarried Parents

  Laura Tach;Ronald Mincy;Kathryn Edin

  396
  Citations

• Economic Insecurity and Social Stratification

  Bruce Western;Deirdre Bloome;Benjamin Sosnaud;Laura Tach

  379
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• The protective effects of neighborhood collective efficacy on British children growing up in deprivation: a developmental analysis.

  Candice L. Odgers;Terrie E. Moffitt;Laura Marie Tach;Robert J. Sampson

  300
  Citations

• Learning-related behaviors, cognitive skills, and ability grouping when schooling begins

  Laura Marie Tach;George Farkas

  265
  Citations

• Claiming Fatherhood: Race and the Dynamics of Paternal Involvement among Unmarried Men

  Kathryn Jo Edin;Laura Tach;Ronald Mincy

  222
  Citations

• More than Bricks and Mortar: Neighborhood Frames, Social Processes, and the Mixed‐Income Redevelopment of a Public Housing Project

  Laura M. Tach

  175
  Citations

• The Role of Earned Income Tax Credit in the Budgets of Low-Income Households

  Ruby Mendenhall;Kathryn Jo Edin;Susan Crowley;Jennifer Sykes

  166
  Citations

• Trends in the Economic Consequences of Marital and Cohabitation Dissolution in the United States

  Laura M. Tach;Alicia Eads

  166
  Citations

• Heterogeneity in Two‐Parent Families and Adolescent Well‐Being

  Sarah Halpern‐Meekin;Laura Tach

  162
  Citations

• Would Equal Opportunity Mean More Mobility

  Christopher Jencks;Laura Tach

  125
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• The Social Safety Net After Welfare Reform: Recent Developments and Consequences for Household Dynamics

  Laura Tach;Kathryn Edin

  124
  Citations

• “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul”: Economic and Cultural Explanations for How Lower-Income Families Manage Debt

  Laura M. Tach;Sara Sternberg Greene

  103
  Citations

• How Does Premarital Cohabitation Affect Trajectories of Marital Quality

  Laura Tach;Sarah Halpern‐Meekin

  74
  Citations

• Tax Code Knowledge and Behavioral Responses Among EITC Recipients: Policy Insights from Qualitative Data

  Katharine Edin;Laura Tach;Sarah Halpern-Meekin

  74
  Citations

• Public housing redevelopment, neighborhood change, and the restructuring of urban inequality

  Laura Tach;Allison Dwyer Emory

  58
  Citations

• Trends in Income Insecurity Among U.S. Children, 1984–2010

  Bruce Western;Deirdre Bloome;Benjamin Sosnaud;Laura M. Tach

  54
  Citations

• Trajectories of Ethnoracial Diversity in American Communities, 1980-2010.

  Matthew Hall;Laura Tach;Barrett A. Lee

  51
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• The Racial Composition of Neighborhoods and Local Schools: The Role of Diversity, Inequality, and School Choice:

  Kendra Bischoff;Laura Tach

  50
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• Social Mobility in an Era of Family Instability and Complexity

  Laura Tach

  40
  Citations